The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-09-24

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ike err man. De mo- sense he's got. de
bigger raskil he iA-ArkansaD Trap
eler.
"A couple recently married at Santa
Rosa, Cal, bore the same family name.
were both the same age, and their
birthdays came on the same date.
1t Is curious scientific fact that
all the elements of the poison found in
. rattlesnake are inherent in the
common Irish potato. -
Nellie Lamb. of Fillmore County,
Neb., aged eleven years and wearing
short dresses. recently ran away from
home with printer name Kelsey.
-Brown-"How your eyes flashed
while you were talking to Miss De We're.
Jonesr' Jones-"Of course they did
my boy. Twas sparkling"
"A grown turkey. belonging to Mrs.
G. B. Beecher. of Griffin. Ga, swallowed
bee few days ago. which stung its
vitals. and in less than an hour it was
stone dead.
III hens be at liberty 100 are enough
for an acre, but IL confined Of course an
acre viii afford room for much larger
number. In this case. each flock Of
ten or twelve hens viii require house
eight feet square-say 200 fowls on an
aero.
lightning struck near tree against
which negro boy was leaning in At
lanta- He whirled around two or three
times and ran. After running some
distance he stopped and went through
the same spinning motion. He has been
crazed ever since.
NEW Orleans women are, without
doubt, the best dressed to be seen any
where" says writer in the New
Orleans Rcdywne. One fact cited in
evidence is that they do not ignore the
just claims Of economy, this restraint
preventing gaudiness. --Augrsta (Go.)
Chronicle.
Fishing for Compliments. -Fusby
"a everybody's getting too clever
nowadays I assure you, my chief
object in society is to conceal my
ignorance, and prevent people from
finding out what an abject fool I really
am!'' Miss Towers-"And do you
succeedf' Punch.
-"Of the ripe age Of eighteen" is
what an esteemed Springfield paper
says of beautiful and accomplished
maiden now visiting at the capital.
This ought to be pleasant reading for
A. ~~R~~k~c~ko kc~-oIo. ~rh< b~~c
entered upon the sere and seniie years
81 eighteen and twenty. Chicago NesOs.
-s.Say, didn't you tell me when you
sold me that dog that he was bird
dogp" eyes, that's what I said.'
well, you swindled me. That dog
won't hunt" Il didn't say he would
hunt Hes bird dog. Cook the birds
for him. That's the way he likes them
best -Nepm0n Independent
Some years ago an American gram
marian gave conjugation of the verb
kiss, as follows: ..Buss, to kiss; rebus,
to kiss again; pluribus. to kiss without
regard to number; sillybus. to kiss the
hand instead of the lips; blunderbuss,
to kiss the wrong person; omnibus, to
kiss everybody in the room; erebus, to
kiss in the dark
George Scott started out to fight .
tame bear in New Hampshire town
the other night on wager of twenty
| Eve dollars. Bruin gave him ''side-
winder' on the esr which broke his Jaw
and knocked him senseless. and when
George came to he packed his valise
AID left the country IN dog-trot.--
Detroit Free Press.
Have you spoken to my daughter,
yet?'' asked the old man. mo. sir; 7
wanted your consent first" "Well, i
advise you to give up the idea. don't
believe she would marry you. and il
she did, neither Of you would be hap
py." 'sWhy do you think 50, STRIP
because you part your hair in the
middle and she parts hers on the side"
Pick
"A Cincinnati Jew owed . clothing
firm in that city $50 for an oyercoat,
which he did not seem inclined to pay.
An attorney induced him one day 70
take Turkish bath, and while he was
enjoying himself constable came in
and took all his clothes, not even leav-
ing : shirt-stud. After three hours
wait, his brother brought him his old
suit.
"A young New Yorker now on .
western ranch, engaged to . wealthy
Brooklyn maiden, in letter to gem
tleman in this city, declares that things
are not ct all rosy in the great and
boundless West He il working As
stable boy, and is glad to find even
this employment. though it pays but